Started From The Bottom...Now We Here!

A CP Image Awards dot net. But don't wait. Voting closes on February five at nine pm Eastern, and make sure to listen to Reasonably Shady every single Monday on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Welcome to Reasonably Shady. This is just L Briant here and I am here with hello everyone. My name is Robin Dixon. Yes, this is

our Reasonably Shady podcast. This is our first podcast. Guys, we don't know what the hell we're doing, but just bear with us because we're going to figure it out and by the time we're like on episode I don't know, twenty eight will be great. So we do kind of want to tell people how we met, right, Well, I think we should start off with, um, just why are we Why is this podcast called reasonably Shady? That's very important, um, So to know us is to know that Robin is

extremely reasonable. She's like practical, She's always like Switzerland. She always tried to see the good in people. And I'm just shady. Okay, Yes, so Geselle's first um reaction to something is a shady one, and then I think about it, I processed it, and then I try to be like Robin, which is very reasonable, but it doesn't really work. I just stay on the shady side. Yes, you sure do. Yes, I mean, but sometimes you don't take that much convincing.

I have to, like, you know, we'll have a private reversation. I say, well, look at it this way. Sometimes I get through to you. Yes, but yes, so welcome to Reasonably Shady, where you will get a lot of reason and a lot of shades. Yes. Absolutely. Now I can say that a hundred years ago, I moved to Baltimore, I got married, and um, me and my husband at the time went to the car wash, and who did I see but this beautiful woman. And I was like, oh my gosh, she really pretty. She kind of looked

like me. You know what, I'm saying, and beautiful. Yes, that's why she was beautiful. But no, I saw her and I was like, Wow, she's really really beautiful, and I thought to myself, I wonder who that is. Then years later I was at a party long behold, this beautiful woman was introduced to me by our French charies. So sheis invited us both to a charity event. Um, one of the biggest, you know, one of the biggest charity events in the city of d C. All the

women look forward to it when everyone gets pissy drunk. Um. So everyone was pissy drunk at this charity event except for us maybe probably like a little bit. I was probably partaking. We ended up at the same table, sitting right next to each other. Yes, So once I realized who she was, She's Robin Dixon. It dawned upon me because when I moved to Baltimore, Robin is from Baltimore that everybody kept asking me was I related to Robin Dixon? And I was like, I don't know, no, Robin Dixon,

and who the hell is Robin Dixon? And Robin Dixon what? So then I was like, holy shit, you're the girl everybody's been asking me about and she's beautiful, so I don't mind being related to her. We're not related, but I mean, you know exactly, so we instantly became besties and like the rest is history. But I feel like it took like it was like we were sitting next to each other and we instantly we're being reasonably shady.

I probably was being shady too, though, absolutely we're being shady shady, yes, And we were just you know, observing the people in the party, you know, making little comments about what was going on and having a good time. And it probably took a minute, really for you to realize, oh, you're the girl from Baltimore that everyone thinks. Yes, my cousin is right. It did take a minute. But once I figured it out, I was like cool, Like, at least it was somebody that I thought was cool as

opposed to an asshole. And it's you know, it's kind of weird. It's like, even though you didn't know me, just figuring out that there was some sort of connection and you knew people that knew me, it was like, okay, all right, she's really cool. And then I realized that she was the woman on the side of the metro bus that I would see I hate robbing right now, Okay, I hate robbing because once upon a time I was on metro buses as a billboard. Not because um, I'm

wanted for like a crime or something. Well no, no, no, you weren't on the bus for a crime, but you were like laying on top of your then husband Jamal, like to our church. Yes, okay, they were very cute. It was. It was very cute, and I was on, look are you hating the picture? I need I have to find a picture of these pusses. I mean I would literally be like, Oh, who's that woman on the side of the bus. She's pretty? Like who are the

robin is hating on my past? Yes? I like it was so we were like instantly I was like, oh, that's the woman outside of the bus, and just I was like, oh that's the woman that everyone thinks it's my cousin. And we were, you know, both silly, goofy, having fun, laughing, instantly hit it off. Yes, yes, And then years later, um, we got a call about a show called The Real Housewives Potomac and we've rocked that

out for I don't know, several seasons. So it helps solidify I mean we were already best these before then, but it really helped with our relationship. And we've had each other's back on the show. They've been trying to tell us apart, but we have had each other's back, and I like, totally appreciate that. By the way, I appreciate that. Thank you. Oh, I mean that's what real friends do. Yes, absolutely, Um, so can we talk about the Real Housewives of tom How we got here? So

just that will tell you. So when they first started casting for a show for Bravo, um, you know, they're like, oh, they're looking for an ensemble cast of women in the in the DC area. And Zell had already been talking to a casting director and Saris had already been talking to the same casting director. And they said, well, Carl Robin, because you know, she's our friend, she'd be great, blah blah blah. And I want to say I was already in.

They liked me. Yeah, she was already in. So the casting director calls and so so they're both like, Rob when you talk to the casting director, I'm like, for what, Like, I mean, I don't got nothing going on. I was going through like I was. My life was in shambles. I will be honest about that. Um, you know, financially, we were in a bad place, my relationship was in a bad place. All that type of stuff. Um, I think I was divorced by them. Yeah, you're definitely divorced.

So I was like, I'll talk to him, but whatever. I talked to him, and in my first you know, I'm like, not in my opinion, not auditioning for show. I'm having a conversation. So my first you know line with him, he was like, you know, tell me about yourself. I was like, well, I don't live that life bad. I should have prepped Robin and I did. I'm like, I'll be honest, I'm not living that life. And so

he called either Giselle or she reasons like I hate her. Okay, So I'm gonna give the story how it really happened. So I was in. I was good to go, and they were like, do you have any friends? And I was like, yes, Robin, and you're gonna call her and she's gonna be amazing. And so they called this person that I had hyped up like I was a hype woman. I was like, she's amazing. And then Robbin is on

the phone, like not giving a ship. So the guy immediately called me back and was like, um, I hate her and she's out, And I was like, oh hell no, callarback, callarback, callarback. So it took Robin a minute to be nice to casting and so finally, you know, they obviously loved her, and the rest is history. Every day I'm still like, how did I get on this show? Because I told him call robbing back? Right. Um, But it's been fun. It's been a journey and most of you who watched

the show have seen our relationship. And you know, I think the name of our podcast reasonably shady? Is it? You probably think it fits us? Yes? Yes, So how do we get to this podcast? All right? We gotta talk about the pandamn demmic, okay, because that is what it is. Um. And like I think, during the beginning of the pandemic, we decided for whatever reason, to have an Instagram live together because we were bored, y shitless, we were bored. We missed each other, and so we

did that. And we don't get on Instagram a lot, like we're not, you know, addicted to social media. So um, that was kind of like the first time in a really long time. We had gotten on Instagram Live together. Yeah. Did you even have lashes at that point? Did you have some lashes on it? Because I think I look crazy. You might have had a termine on my head or something. You had a term I have like my hair like on a ponytail top of my head. The pandemic hit. Okay,

can we talk about like the pandemic hit? Um? And I was like, oh, yes, I mean I was like kind of loving in it, pers because I was like, Oh, I don't have to get my hair done. I don't have to get to my lashes done. I don't have to put on clothes. I don't have to And that's a dream for Robin, for everyone to know, that is Robin's dream in life to never have to do any of those things anything. I didn't have to get my nails done. I let my nails fall off. I still

haven't put them back on. What else? Um? Um? You had on sweatpants every day? Pants every day. I was drinking wine at ten a m. And eating chocolate cake at four am. Wait wait, I remember Robin called me and she was like just how oh my god it was midnight and I had I just polished off an ice cream bar. I can't do it anymore. And I was like, back away from the refrigerator, back away. It

was hard. I gained like a good fourteen pounds the pandemic during that, like that first two months of the pandemic, I gained fourteen pounds for sure. And then a light switch went off and I was like, I hate food. I don't want to Yes, I was like, I don't want to eat. I don't want anything. So now, like this has been going on till this day. Um, I've only had a bar. It's everyone, It's eight thirty at night PM and I've had one bar. Like, okay, but Robin, we can eat. I mean, we don't have to go

that far. I know. But something happened. I mean I still eat, but it's like I'm not hungry. I went from eating all day, all night, staying up until like four in the morning and just pigging out to not eating. Like so you're like a bear in hibernation, Yes you have stored up fat and then yes, but right so I decided, Like for me, it was kind of similar, like one day I woke up and I was like, I'm not cooking anymore. And I have children, and I was like, I don't care if they starve, because there's

gonna be no food being cooked up in this home. God, I'm done, yes, because at first we were cooking all day, three times a day. Now I am proud to say I am like a Platinum plus tier member of Chick fil A. Like I mean, I can't because I'm right behind you. Ever, the highest reward level is I'm that should I redeem my rewards for free cookies, for a free chicken sandwich? For like? Is this on an app? I gotta get on the app. What I'm not on the air, You're not on the What am I missing?

You're missing free chicken sandwich and free nuggets and free Okay, I'm doing it now, I'm doing it. Now, I'm doing I'm getting on the Scott Damn app. All right? Do you are they delivering to you? So what I do is I drive up to the mall where the Chick fil A is, I give my kids my card and I sit in the car and they go in there and get the food and to come out. So I need to get the app. What I do is I opened the app and I hit repeat last order you know, like, yes,

the app. I want my room, I want my rewards. I have already told people I am the cheapest richest woman. You will let the meat. Okay, I want my god damn rewards. Okay, all right, well we got sidetrack robbing, so no, I know, but I feel like all of that, Like it's hard to talk about a pandemic and not talk about all the ship that we were. Yeah, that's true. And it was literally it was a lot because Robin, you and I were sending each other menus, I mean

not menus. We were sending recipes of different food that we could cook. And none of it was um, like fat free. None of it was like the skinny portion. This was all like food food you're looking good, yes, with butter. So that had to stop. That stopped. That was horrible. Um. But I feel like, you know, clearly were coming out of the pandemic and I feel better about my life. Oh me too, absolutely, And spring is sprung. That always helps. So it was a really rough patch

for me. Um, just this past like you know, fall, winter, and now that spring is here, it's like, okay, spring us here. We have a vaccine, we have you know, I think we're we've just become more accustomed to life as it is. Although I feel like we are getting better, um and I'm feeling better about life. I am. I'm feeling really good. And you know, we're in the State of Maryland, and State of Maryland is doing great with their numbers, and that's making me feel like, you know,

there's there's light at the end of the tunnel. It is, absolutely but I'm still very cautious. You know, I'm not out and about. I'm not you know, trying to be a big gatherings. I'm not you know when I oh, my god, do you see all these spring Breakers spring Breakers, I've lost their damn mine. Oh my god. It is something called a Petri dish of germs and it makes

me my stomach kurt. It's like they just like release them from jail and they just like, but you know what, not gonna I'm not gonna throw shade because when I get into a club, I'm at like, I can't wait until that I'm dropping like us high. I mean right, and I don't want to go to the club. But when that time, I don't want to go, but I'm going, yes, yes, you donna have a good old time. So my I will say, my outlet has been and we still have to get back to this how this podcast. Yes, we're

getting there. Were bear with us. This is reasonably shady. Bear with us. That's why we're here with you because we have so much to talk about. And we go we you know, we get on a sidetracked and we come right back. But my outlet has been basketball tournament. So we have you know, want and I or I have a youth basketball team that one coaches. I'm the one is her husband fiance? Yes, husband, yes, And so our son Corey plays on the team. Robin is the is a boy mom, I'm a girl momm I know, yes,

so boy mom. All day so we have been traveling every other weekend to play in basketball tournaments. Um, the kids playing mass like, it's all very socially distanced all that, but in the nighttime, the parents turned all the way up. I mean we're literally basketball parent turnout. We're literally at the games with hangovers. That's a game. Yes, we are turning up. And literally one weekend my son was telling me stuff that I said and I did and I

don't remember. So, yes, those have been my releases that's called bad mom. Just in case you'all don't know. I mean, but mama got to be happy. Mom gotta be happy. You gotta be happy. So anyway, that's you know, I haven't been in the club, but we have created our own little club in the residents in Okay or not to turn up in the residence in residence the Wyndham Garden turnout. We get the ball, we get the conference. It's at the bar. Tell me what's at the bar.

We have a stock bar. We have to kill it. We got what kind of to kill it because there's different kinds stuff. Cosamiko, this is this is a horrible turn Okay, great goose. Okay, all right, that's my drink anyway. So okay, back to where we were talking about, that's such been your outlet for the pandemic. That has been my outlet in the path over the past few months. Like at first I was very like, I'm not leaving

an house. I'm not going anywhere. And now it's like, okay, these kids need to get on the basketball court and I need to leave the house. That is like an outlet. Getting back to how we are here at this podcast, people robbing went on a rant um we like we said, we we did Instagram Live together. We did one or two maybe just one, I can't remember. And the feedback that we were getting or the comments were that, oh, you know, j Robin, you'll should have a Green Knight bandage.

'all should have a podcast. And and I think it's because when we're talking to one another, the people who are listening or watching, they feel like they're like our girlfriends too, or our friends too, Like they're right there in the room with us, and they're like, you know, they're getting it, they're keeping with us, like we're not just like talking, you know, just about the show, and

like we're literally just laughing, joking, having fun. And I think people people really responded to that, like they were messaging me, messaging both of us, like you guys need a podcast, you guys need a podcast. And um so I Robin told me. I put it out. Robin called me and said, she said, you know, people were giving that kind of feedback. I put it out into the universe. In other words, I called my manager and I told her to make it happen. And here we are today.

We are on our herd. We we are on the Black Effect. Platform. Thank you Black Effect. We love y'all, and you know, I feel like this is a great way, speaking of outlets of us to like share our stories. Um, we've been through person really a lot. You know, I'm divorced, I got three kids. Um Robin is not really divorced, kind of not really. She's okay, fine, she's married, she has two kids, and we're both entrepreneurs. We both believe

in success. We try to get our hustle on. We try to teach our kids, um, to be the best people that they can be. And I feel like, um, you know, there's a lot of people out there. They are striving for greatness. So that is what we are going to try to bring you all week by week. But first, because we are reasonably shady, we'd like to give y'all individually our reasonably shady moment of the week. M Robin, would you like to go first? Okay, I

will go first. So today at an appointment to Kit corn Rows, Okay, explain that because is that different from loose locks lemon locks. I need an explation because I don't know nothing about these braids. Well me neither. That's the problem. So you know, I don't know a whole much about hair. I just typically I go to my hair styles and as they do my hair, thank you. So I don't really know the terminology for corn rows or braids or whatever it is. So I just told

the girl I want corn rows. I'm going on a trip I don't want to do with my hair. I want some corn rows. And she's like, well, what stou do you want? I was like, oh my lord, what do you mean? So I was like, just I said, just do something cool, right, I'm thinking because I've gotten corn roads before. And it literally took like less than two hours to do. And I had all these appointments, you know, I had somewhere to be okay, called my

house to do this podcast podcast. Yes. Um, so I was like, okay, my appointments at two, I'll be out by four the latest. I can go home and you know, eat something or you know, see my kids, make sure they're cool. Yeah. Um, five and a half hours later, right, I walk out. First of all, I had to I texted you out probably like five times. Oh I'm running late. Oh I'm even later. Oh I'm even later, Like I literally and it's so crazy. It's like I thought she

was almost done, but she wasn't. It was like, okay, there was like a patch of hair and I was like, okay, that's the last one. And I was like, oh, okay, now it's the last one. And then it was like, so, oh, here is reasonably shady you to me because you late or the lady that did your hair to you. I'm gonna say me because I did not tell her. I was on a time constraint, okay, you know, like and it's like once she started doing her thing, it's too late.

You know. I couldn't be like, wait, wait a minute, Um, this feels like it's taking a little bit longer, like you know, when I got like half my hair braided. So they're very cute. By the way, Robbel looks really cute. For those of you all cannot see us, she looks very very cute and she's a very pretty woman. And that's why we love her. Even though she was two hours late. I was too. It's really more like three three late. Latest spot there there we go. There we

are just late. So so I am the shady person because you're okay alright, so um, and just to know us, just to know that I was always on time. I lived by that. I don't know where that came from. In my life. I'm a virgo. Yes, I'm always on time and Robin is always late. So guys, if you all don't get an episode from us, it's because Robin didn't show up. She was like, oh ship, then no, just call a guest, okay, or I'll just do it myself. Okay. Anyway, alright,

so my good thing is like you love me. It's so crazy. I was like, when I was texting, I was like, I'm really late, and I was like, oh shoot, I don't want know what she's gonna say. It's like okay. I was like, okay, what was I going to say? Oh? God? Actually, and honestly, we were supposed to do this at ten am. Yes. And I called her last night, yes, after I got home from a basketball tournament, and I was like, um,

I think that's a little too soon. We're going to a little more time because I get my last done, like I gotta have. Let me tell you, I'm the book of excuses. Okay, people bear with me. Pray for me, y'all. Pray for me, yes, pray for me in these streets anyway. Okay, So my reasonably shady moment is you know, I have met a couple of new ladies lately, and one of them I reached out to because I felt like, you know, she could be a cool girlfriend and we could kind

of keep key together or whatever. And I sent her a little text message and I was like, hey, um, why don't we hang out for drinks? Right? And she responds back and says, mmmm, well, um, you're gonna need to go on my assistant and have you penciled into my schedule? Who does that? Now? That's not reasonably shady. That's just shady. That's shady shady. Yes, it's all the

way whack shady. That's right. Yeah, but it but it falls under this is what happened to me, um in my week, and I just want to share that with you all. So that should be like, okay, well kick rocks and keep it moving, kick rocks, keep it moving because I have friends that I can have drinks with. I don't need any new friends. Yeah, and what and that what Drake said? I don't know no new friends. That's Drake or who said that? Was that little baby

or a baby? I can't tell them apart it was Drake. Okay, no, new friends alright. Anyway, moving on, Um, so we would like to share some our or I would like Robbing to be honest, because I've known Robbin for a while so I know her past, and we're seasoned women, right, we've come a long way, a little more season than me. So anyway, um, and I feel like there's a big difference between like who we were as children growing up. And I can identify with this because my kids are

teenagers now. They're a little bit of not not off the chain, but you know, they do things that make me wonder, how will you grow up and what will you be? Right? It's extremely scary. So I would like for us to give a little tip bit into our past, rob and so people can really understand us. Okay, well I'm happy to share my past. Um. So you know, and I think this is just great. This is just

we're all going to be friends here. Um. Hopefully you all will be tuning in for the podcast you know, every week, yes, every episode, and so you're gonna get to know more and more and more about us. So where what better place than to start with our our childhood or you know, how we became who we are today. So I grew up um with two professional parents. My father is a dentist. UM. My mother was a professor

at Morgan State University and then also an entrepreneur. Um. We lived a very upper middle class, bougie black people life. And when I say bougie, I mean we were in you know, Jack and Jill. Um. My my mother is in a sorority and my father is in a fraternity. Um. You know I am in a sorority as well. Um. I guess we should just nate. I mean I don't. I don't have to protect the name. So my mother is a Delta, my father is a Kappa um and

and you know, they both went to HBCUs. They're very like social in the in the city of Baltimore, very well known. It just you know, because Baltimore is a small town, and you know, years ago wasn't that many professional black people in the city of Baltimore. There weren't that many black dentists in Baltimore. Just whatever. It is. So because of that, my parents we're very I do always to call them boogie though, because they're like they were like laid back bougie people, like down to earth

bougie people. Yes, I agree, with that, and you know, we're all in in the social organizations that are more exclusive and hard to get into. Um. So that was kind of the life that I lived. I went to a private school, a very prestigious and expensive private school, UM from nine through twelve, and um you know, had a car as soon as I turned sixteen, like all that stuff. Lived a good life. And oh I was so smart that by the by the age of three, I was reading and so they put me in school

a year early. Okay, So I was like my parents golden child because I was so smart and I was so well behaved, and I was and my brother was a terror. My brother's three years older than me. And my brother was like the worst child ever. Yes, I said that he was. You could tell him. I said that too. He was the worst, Like he was a nightmare. He was wild. I think, like you know they I

don't know. He just there was just so many issues with my brother that when I came along, my parents were like, especially my mom, she was like, oh my God, thank you. I think God was like, you need a break because that son of yours is a terror. So I was the perfect child. Yes, I know, this is going downhill. Yes, Somewhere along the way, I met some people who weren't the perfect children, and I succumbed to peer pressure. M in like seventh grade, and what happened

Robin seventh grade? Seventh grade? I was smoking cigarettes and running the streets, like running up and down the you know, the literal streets of my neighborhood, smoking cigarettes in seventh grade. So you would chain smoking like an old lady. Well not, I mean we were like hiding behind the bushes smoking cigarettes. Then we will go and like break the Mercedes emblems off of people's cars. You are a vandal. You were

randalizing the streets. So I'm like, I'm sorry if you notice one day that your Mercedes emblem was gone from the hood of your car. It was me what I was taking a can of soda. This is like a federal offense. I think the statue of limitations statue, Yeah it's over, okay. I was taking a can of soda and pouring it in the mail box, like the mail box that you like put your mail in, Like people like, oh I gotta pay my bills, let me drop it

in this blue mail box. So you are would be like he take a can of soda and poured in the mailbox. So people have pepsi mail coat mail because of Robbins. This is horrible. I thought I was bad. No, you take the cake, honey. So that was seventh grade. So then God forbid you get to eighth grades? No better, And all the while my parents think I'm perfect. Oh they had They were none the wiser. They were none the wiser, Like how did they not smell that cigarette

smoke on being m Maybe they were in denial. I don't, glad is girl, you couldn't smell Robbins, you know, Like I'm to this day, I'm like, I don't want to talk about this. And my brother brings up this ship and I'm can we curse here? Yeah, she'd we can, Cursey because I have a potty. My brother brings this stuff up as if it's like the funniest thing on earth, and I'm like, no, don't talk about it. So anyway, okay, okay, eighth grade. I am drinking, mad dog? What in eighth

grade and you don't even get to high school yet? No? No, I didn't get to high school yet. So you was a cigarette drunk and I was smoking, and you were smoking with Robbing Dixon in eighth grade grade? Like, that's really really young, Like because eighth grade, you're what twelve, I'm a year younger than everyone else. You're twelve. I started school year early. Okay. So if my children were right now, because you know, the twents and fourteen, if they were smoking weed, I would be like livid. I

would beat there, asked for you. Yes, okay, Like and my and my son Corey just turned thirteen yesterday, and I could not imagine him being around anyone doing that. So do I need to keep you away from my kids? Are you a bad influence? Robbing? What's happening? Know the story? There's like a there's like, um, is there a light at the end of the time? The light at where's the light? It's coming? I mean, it gets a little bad and then it gets when when was sex involved?

Ninth grade? For what? Robin Dixon cannot come around my kids. I'm here to tell y'all she's got some bad values. But all the while I'm like, Okay, I know I'm doing I'm being really bad, and I hope I don't get in trouble. I hope my parents don't find out. I don't know how the funk I got away with this stuff? I just don't. So ninth grade came. This is where the turning point happened. Because at this point you're like, uh, what do you call it a delinquent?

You're a juvenile delinquent, right, I could have been in juvie. Okay. So, and this is all because I had a friend that was my best friend, and she didn't have supervision, like her parents are buried. And her parents smoked cigarettes too, so it's like if we were smoking in the basement, they weren't going to be able to even tell, right. So I spent a lot of time in her house, um,

and got into all types of trouble. So ninth grade something a lightbulb went off in my father's head, Thank you, Jesus, because you've been running around town killing people's Mercedes fans Jesus. And I was at my friend's house and we were running the neighborhood somehow, I'm trying to remember the story. Oh, there was a guy I was talking to and he was four years older than me. Of course he was.

He was probably because of course the fourteen year old boys weren't you know, they weren't doing and was this were you even of age? No, you were not, and he was this was called rape? It sure was right. Clearly you can never talk to my kids again. I can speak from experience what not to do. I am

the example of what not to do. But what happened to was so fourteen, hanging out with my friend and her boyfriend who and they had been like having sex for two years, you know, and then um and then the guy that was a senior in high school and we drank mad dog smoke weed and I remember is I was in the back of the car getting laid, getting what's laid me? You were having sex? Okay, I'm sorry, okay, yes, okay,

And then what happened? This is getting good. So that happened, and then something something in my father's head, like a light bulb went off, and he was like he started looking for me, like I was at my friend's house and he literally drove to their house and was like, where's Robin, Like something's not right? Oh? How long did it take for your father figure out? How much? And right?

Three years? Probably three years, I guess, so I think he always I think it was one of those where like they knew that my friend probably wasn't the best influence, which but I would always be like, but that's my friend. I want to go to her house please, And we spent like all like a lot of time together. She was Jewish, I can recite Hebrew prayers. I've been you know what I mean. It was just like I spent that much time that I was at like Rasha Shana did her with her and all that type of stuff.

So but something that my parents would always try to like, no, we don't want you to go over there, because I think they knew that it just we were not supervised.

So for whatever reason, that night he drove over there, came and got me, and I'm drunk as a skunk, and literally it was like for me, that was like the worst thing imaginable for me, for my parents to see that I was drunk like that and to disappoint them like that that I literally didn't drink again, like you know what I mean, Like after that experience, right, well, I want say I didn't drink again because clearly because you drunk last week with the basketball moms, Okay, I

want to say again, I probably didn't pick back like my partying up until like senior year in high school, but I wasn't. I stopped hanging out with my friend and do you know, by senior year in high school, she was addicted to heroin, Like she had to go. Who you telling? I mean, when I think about I'm like, oh my god, that could have been me. Even though I felt like I was a little I have, like, you know, more willpower than that I had, Like I was always one. Like you know when when you were

in like drug did you have d air class? What was it called dare? Yes? Okay, when I was in da air class and they showed you the pictures and when they tried to scare you, and it scared me right right. So I didn't think I was going to go that far. But the fact that my friend that I hung out with every weekend was addicted to heroin by the time she was in twelfth grade, Like I just think about, like what could have been? So clearly we love your father because he got you on the

straets and arrow. He saved me, he saved you. But back then, so back then, you weren't you were not thinking about your future and what you were going to do and who you were going to be. No, who Who's doing that in ninth grade. Well, my children do that. Yes, Oh they're going to be okay, they're like ahead of the curve. They are. Yes, that's amazing, because no, I'll be honest, I'm forty one. I still don't know what I want to be, and that we're going to say

for another episode. People, Robbin's pretty one and she has no clue what she wants to do with her life. That's because I feel like that's a lot of people and people can relate to that. Oh. Absolutely, yes, absolutely, I mean I just feel like, yes, how many times in college like you. I mean, I feel like all of my friends in college, like I don't know what I do unless you have that one friend that's like

I'm going to be a doctor. And I'm like, good for you, bitch, I'm so happy that you figured that out. Like this is true. But anyway, yeah, um yeah, So that story, that experience like probably saved my life, you know what I mean, It probably really saved me from just being like just totally jacked up and see my parents so disappointed, like literally scared me to the point where I was like, Okay, I don't want to do that again. And you know, I still was a good student. Like,

you know, I finished, I was a good student. I was. I went to college, you know, graduated, all that good stuff. You met one, you had some kids, and you met a friend named just Ol. We're here today, so it just out, Yes, well, mine is like um Cinderella in comparison New Yrs, mine is very PG rated. I was not vandalizing any cars in the streets. Um. I think

I had a wild moment. Let me see, probably high school going into college, and I remember like one of the nights I was like, I can't do this anymore, right, was like I was turned so in college, I happened to turn twenty one. Being in college one is a very big difference from Robin's fourteen years old, for the record, But anyway, Um, and I was enjoying myself, living my

life and doing my thing. I'm in college and the guys I was hanging out with it was like, Giselle, you turn into one, you have to take twenty one shot. And I was like, okay, that sounds good to me. It's like so I was down. I was like ready for the challenge. And I don't know where in the twenty one. I literally have no idea about the rest of the night, but I can promise you. I tried to get there because it was a challenge and I wanted our lucky your life. I know, I wanted to

I wanted to beat the challenge. And I remember saying, I don't think I'm gonna make it, y'all. Probably around shot ten, I was like, I don't think I'm gonna make it. Jo some cheap ass liquor too. It was probably like a mad dog, but it was like shots anyway. So and then oh, I don't want to cut you off, go ahead, but you said mad dogs. So when my parents when when I got caught being pissie drunk, and my parents were like, what were you thinking? Why are

you doing? I was like, well, it says that it's wine, and I didn't think that wine was bad. So she's just lying on type of line, type of line. And then oh my god, this is like the the victim. I was trying to victimize myself. So then they're all like mad at me, and my brother's like let me. I was like, I want to kill myself. I got to kill myself. That was like to get them to like leave back up off, you leave me alone, I'm gonna kill myself. So at least you were a smart,

juvenile delinquent. Yes, I like that. Um so back a little bit of a backstory. Um, I am the youngest of three kids, so by the time I was coming up, and we're all kind of like eighteen months apart. So by time I got like, you know, in my high school years or whatever, my parents like, I think we're tired, and they didn't feel like dealing with me and they didn't care what I did. So, um, I did get away with a lot, you know, maybe sneaking out the house a couple of times, things like that, but no,

nothing like too traumatic. But yes, when I was trying to take my twenty one shots on my twenty first birthday, I realized I can't do this and I feel crazy. And I felt crazy for like weeks, like I felt sick, I felt like delirious. I felt like God was trying to tell me something. I don't know what he was trying to tell me, but he was just like, bitch, you don't need to be drinking all this Like that, that was what I was getting from God. You are lucky.

You are alive. I mean because and and not like I guess to be serious now, like we do hear stories of people in college who died from alcohol overdose. But whoever was giving me the challenge, I know who they are to this day. Why did y'all do that to me? Like that wasn't nice, That wasn't a good challenge. That was the worst, and how they feel their daughter? Right? And I was so crazy. I just was like, okay, I'll do it. Who agrees to this? Okay? So stupid

Carllege students right um? And then you know, after I graduate from college, and I still I didn't know what I wanted to do either. I didn't know you know, where I wanted to land. I do know that I did want to like plan things. I wanted to be like an event plann or wedding plant or something like that. And I did you that for a little while for the double a cp UM where I met jam All got married, So um, I couldn't been planning background as well. Okay, alright,

a mayor Ron got you know things are coming. But never in a million years somebody said you're gonna be in a reality television show and you're gonna be a housewife and you're gonna be on Bravo. I would be like, hell no, not only no, but I don't want to do that. It wasn't a desire. If not some people want to be on TV, right, I had no desire. I was living my life and enjoying myself prior to our casting director calling me and saying this is what

you're gonna do. And then and then I actually talked when when you and I talked about it, you would like to say you we only live once? Like why not? And where where? Why not? And who knows if we'll make it past season one? We all season six. I didn't even think season one was going to make the light of day. Yes, we're on season three, just for the for the for the people in the in the cheap seats in the back. We're on season three And Robs like, are we still on this show? Was is real?

Like yes, Like Robin didn't get it for a very long time that we were on TV. Like she would be like confused, like we'd been walking down street people screaming our name. She's like, who are they talking to? Right? They talking to us? Robbing, We're on TV. I actually experienced that this past weekend at a basketball tournament. Like there's this lady like waving crazy and I'm like, looking behind me, I'm like what she she sees someone, Oh,

you're waving at me. Yes, I will never forget. And actually this was actually season one, so it was a little weird. So this could this could be believable. I mean, you could you know, not be this naive. We were in Bethany Beach and because we went there for Ashley's um it was our trip. That was our trip Bethany Beach, and they got wind that a reality show was filming

in Bethany Beach. So we were like, I think going to the boardwalk or whatever, and it was a mob of people just like waiting for us to get off the bus. And Rob was like, holy shit, who are those people? Why are they here? What are they doing here? It's like where I'm being there here for us? And she was like, what do you mean, no, No, I was like, yes, they see camera crews and they're running now. At the time, they nobody thought beyont he was getting

off the bus though, and Beyonce did. It was me and you I'm just saying but anyway, um, so we get off the bus and they didn't know who we were, but like after that, it's like you know, it has. This ride has been a blessing, I'll say for um, for myself, and I think I can speak about for the both of us. You know, it's ups and downs, it's highs and lows, but we have been able to showcase things that we do love and our family. I'm

proud of my family. I'm proud of the mom that I am, and I feel like that is a blessing. And if anybody can, especially your story, Robin, because you're so relatable, if anybody can learn from our lives, I think the whole thing is worth it, right absolutely. One of the biggest blessings for me is when I receive feedback and comments from people who are like, you have

helped me. You know you, I've you know, I'm not in a good place, but I watched the show and either it's for comic relief or it's because they look at our stories and say, WHOA I can relate to that. I love how you overcame. Thank you for sharing. And so for me, the best part is just affecting other people's lives that I don't even know. And let me tell you, it's not easy, No, not easy. I don't recommend reality television for anybody who does not have thick skin.

When I say, think scan like elephant scan, right right. Fortunately, and that's the thing about both of us. We don't care like you know, all of the scrutinyus received. I mean, sometimes it is a little jarring when you can we can receive so much negativity, but we know who we are and we have the people in our lives that are important to us, and we know that love us, and they're not going to change for us, and we're

not going to change for them. So fortunately, I've been able to maintain friendships with all of my friends that I've been friends with before the show, and they don't give a day we're about the show, you know what I mean. And so I can have good girl time with my friends and not talk about the show and just feel like myself. And so, yes, it's it's stressful. It's hard. Filming is hard, Watching the show is hard.

The you know, scrutiny is hard. But overall, the blessing has been just like way more than than the negativity, right right, So people, we're about to wrap up this first episode. We that was so fat. I know, but that we we we have a couple of takes from the episode. Okay, so take number one for me is

Robin was, as you have, not delinquent. But she has come so far people, Okay, she has I mean, listen, she didn't come from vandalizing Mercedes Bens to being an owner of Embellished and her hats are selling have on one right now. Her hats are selling like hot cakes, Honny hot cakes. So that's amazing. Do you have a take from this show? I do would say thank God that Giselle did not overdose and she's here because we

don't do it, because we wouldn't be here. We would not be on season six of The Real Housewives of Potomac. We would not We were not um. And you know what more importantly, like the power of friendship, Like I'm so happy that we are friends and we have a sisterhood that is unbreakable, absolutely absolutely, and that is so valuable.

And when you have that friendship, everyone just nurtured it. Yes. Yes, Now, at the end of every episode, guys, we're going to be giving you are reasonable person of the day or the week or the year, and our shady person of the day, the week, or the year. So who's reasonable these days? I mean, this is our first podcast and we just have to pay homage, homage, homage both the age of silent right, it's it's homma homage, hommagemmage. I promise I went to private school. We have to just

give Dr Fauci, yes, yes, yes, fou yes probs. I don't care if you believe the pandemic is a hoax. We have been through hell and Dr Fauci has remained steady, steadfast, factual. And I mean, for the most part, it's crazy, like they would say, like, oh, um, I predict that in three months the numbers are going to skyrocket, and we're sitting there like, oh whatever, And then come three months and the number of skyrockets. So like I feel like everything that they said would happen happen. So he's a

reasonable person. He is a reasonable person. And we got to give it up to our new president, Joe Biden's yes, just for the sake of thank you for being here, Yes, thank you. If I find myself at this point in a reasonable way, not having to stalk CNN anymore to find out the bad news, I can actually go to bed feeling kind of safe and secure about the world.

I knew that life was crazy when I would literally be listening to Seeing In in my car, like I would be driving and turn to Seeing In and it was like almost like comforting to hear those voices that I've been listening to, like all day, all night. And now I don't have to do that. Yes, I mean, you can't if you want to, but I feel like I don't want to stop there. I'm sorry, don't if your radings go down, it's not our fault, it's yes.

So because the world is a little bit better, yes, and we're feeling a little bit more secure about our leadership. And then now we have our shady person of the year. And oh, she'd been shady, shady, shady, shady who this thing been shady? And I don't even like to say her name because I just want her to go away, but that she needs to go. Sister girl, COVID girl,

that sa coronavirus better known as coronavirus, Miss coronavirus. You so shady, Oh you shady, And I'm gonna need for you to leave, okay, So get your shady tail up out of here. We are done with you. She has out warned her welcome yes, she's never welcome never. No. No. So we we've had, we've had enough of you. We're done.

And um, I think our reasonably shady combination is a good one because I think Algie and Biden can get rid of our shady were We're going to be back to normal one day one day soon, one day soon, one day soon. So I think I think that's it for that, that's it. I mean, I think we should tell people thank you number one for listening to us, and I hope you continue to listen to us because

we have a whole lot of exciting topics to talk about. Yes, you can expect to hear, you know, just topics about relationships and business and friendships and beauty and you know, current events we're going to tackle. Yes, and so I'm sorry about and and I mean, and it's going to be fun and funny and you're going to feel like

you're talking to your girlfriends. Oh and then you know, at some point we're going to have advice dogments, So if you have some, if you need your advice from me or just hell, I mean, I don't know who you want advice from. Probably we'll both give it to you. But um, next, our next podcast, we believe it's going to be about breaking up or making up, all about relationships and and that animal that we call love. So you don't want to miss that. So until then, halliback

reasonably Shady. Which one are you going to be this week? I'm gonna be shady. I will continue to be reasonable by people. Thank you. Reasonably Shady is a production of the Black Affect podcast Network. For more podcasts from our Heart RADI visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows, and you can connect with us on social media at Robin Dixon, ten, Giselle Briant, and Reasonably Shady